Happy Birthday Hunter!

 

So this past week we celebrated a birthday in the True household.  Our little baby boy is now a little man.  He has entered the big boy world of 5-year-olds.  I cannot believe how fast time has gone.  One minute we are cleaning up his spit up and the next thing I know we are buying his school supplies! (That will be for a later post) His birthday was in the middle of the week, so we thought it only fair that he was able to open presents on his actual birthday.  The morning of his birthday he woke up  we woke him up to a room full of balloons. 

I think that was his favorite part of the day, because when we picked him up from preschool, all the teachers were asking us about it.  Also, everyone that called that night to wish him a happy day was told about "all the balloons in my room!".  We let him open one present before school, which was from his baby sister.  He takes out the tissues and says..."Oh Shoot!  Are you serious!" 

This kids says the darndest things!  It was a few cars with super heroes on them. 

That night we had Mac and Cheese and hot dogs, as requested by the birthday boy.  Then he got the one thing he has been asking for for almost a year....a DS!  We had a great night...a late night, but a great night.

Then this weekend he had his first friend birthday party.  Let me tell you how nervous I was!  I wanted it to be so perfect and be "the cool mom".  I almost had a panic attack.  He finally decided that he wanted to have a super hero party. I made capes, banners, masks, goodie bags, and the cake! 

I was so nervous about the cake, but had a backup plan if I could not make it the way I wanted.  Thanks to my sis the web ended up looking amazing and so did everything else!  The kids loved the capes and masks.  Word of advice to those that are wanting to do the same thing...Do not use sharpie marker for the masks!  The poor kids all had black marks all over their faces! 

I had coloring pages for the kids to color when they first got there. 

Then we had a obstacle course to run. 

The kids did this several times.

Then they had to get the "kryptonite" from the cave! 

Then they had to ward of the villains with "webs". 

And last but not least, they had to diffuse the bombs before the party blew up!

All in all the party was a huge success. I am the only one that knows what we didn't do and what went wrong, but who cares.  We didn't need to have buildings for the kids to climb, or people sitting outside at the decorated tables, or the juice boxes that are still in the cooler in the garage, or play bowling, or have super cool food tags.  As long as my little man enjoyed his party, that is all that matters!  We asked him later that night what his favorite party of his birthday party was. Know what he said????  His cake!  Boy oh Boy, let me tell you how proud that makes Momma!  We are so proud of our little man. We love you with all our hearts and you are such an amazing son.  Happy Birthday Hunter!